2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
2010: The Year We Make Contact Rating: U/A 7+ (Parental Guidance Under 7) is Peter Hyams' sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, set nine years after the original mission. Against a backdrop of Cold War tensions, a joint American-Soviet expedition aboard the Soviet spacecraft Leonov travels to Jupiter to investigate the fate of the Discovery One and its sentient computer HAL 9000. The crew — including Dr. Heywood Floyd, engineer Walter Curnow, and HAL's creator Dr. Chandra — must uncover what went wrong on the original mission while confronting mysterious phenomena near Jupiter and its moons, and cooperating across political divides to return home safely. Rating: U/A 7+ (Parental Guidance Under 7): 2010 is classified U/A 7+ under the Interplanetary Television framework, consistent with its international ratings (MPAA PG, BBFC PG, FSK 12 in some regions). The film is a contemplative, dialogue-driven hard science fiction drama with very limited on-screen violence and no sexual content. A cautious classifier could defensibly nudge it to U/A 13+ given Cold War nuclear-confrontation themes, references to the deaths of the original Discovery crew, and a brief tense sequence involving HAL's prior malfunction, but these are handled in a restrained, non-graphic manner suitable for older children with parental guidance. Applicable content warnings include mild threat, brief peril in space, mature themes around war and mortality, very limited mild language, brief tobacco use consistent with the era, and references to off-screen death. A pre-roll warning screen is not required at the U/A 7+ level. Recommended descriptor line: "Mild threat, mature themes, references to death, brief smoking." When in doubt, apply the higher rating per internal guidance.
- 1984
- 1h : 56m
- 1249.8k views
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6.7
- PG
- English (UK)
